Honors Projects
Digital Poetry: Writing for the Electronic Medium
Abstract
More than plain text on a screen, digital poetry is a performance and an engagement with a reader/user through text, images, videos, audio, animation, and/or game-like structures. As our technology has advanced, so has this genre evolved, now including a spectrum of sub-genres like multimedia and interactive poetry. To explore the capabilities and value of digital poetry, I created six digital poems that capture part of the spectrum. Four I adapted from poems I’ve written previously. Two I wrote and designed for the screen simultaneously. Then I reflected on the process for both, considering how the experience might have any ramifications on my traditional writing process and more ways to integrate an art form like poetry with other disciplines.
Department
Creative Writing
Major
Creative Writing
First Advisor
Abigail Cloud
First Advisor Department
Creative Writing
Second Advisor
Jerry Schnepp
Second Advisor Department
Visual Communication and Technology Education
Publication Date
Spring 5-2-2016
Repository Citation
Lortz, Kelsey, "Digital Poetry: Writing for the Electronic Medium" (2016). Honors Projects. 318.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/318